Livingston's 'Cowboys and Indians' at Hemmle Hall (PlayBill blog by William Kerns)

Well-traveled musician and recording artist Bob Livingston is bringing a concert called "Cowboys and Indians: A Wild East Show of the Imagination" to the Texas Tech School of Music's Hemmle Recital Hall at 8 p.m. Wednesday.

There is no admission charge.

The show is sponsored by the Tech College of Visual and Performing Arts, Tech's School of Music and the Vernacular Center.

In short, an ensemble of musicians and performers from Austin and India perform an original musical work that explores the contrasts and similarities between the complex styles of India and the mythical cowboy songs and lore of the American West.

A narrative thread is interpreted by classical dance from India, and punctuated by poetry and prose from such culturally diverse sources as Rudyard Kipling, Black Elk, Edwin Markham and India's Vedic epic, the Mahabharata.